Improvement in implements for fire-arms



A. E. BARTHEL. Implements for Fire-Arms,

Patenwd oct. 19. i875.

N.PETERS. PNQTo-UTHDGRAPHER, WASMINGYQN. D, C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

ALBERT E. BARTHEL, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN IMPLEMENTS FOR FIRE-ARMS.

Specification forming' part of Letters Patent No. 168,823, dated October 19, 1875 application filed March 23, 1875.V Y

To all whom it may concern:

Be known that l, ALBERT E. BARTHEL, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a Combination Gun- Tool and Dog-Whistle for Sportsmen, ofwhich the following is a specification:

My invention has for its object to combine, in a neat and compact tool for sportsmens use, adog-whistle, screw-driver, nipple-wrench, and priming-needle, all of which are found useful if not essential by all who use a gun.

Figure l is a perspective View with a portion of the whistle broken away to show the interior arrangement Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the ring, head, screw-driver, and needle.

In the drawing, A represents a metal cylinder, divided into two parts by a diaphragm,

a. A notch, b, is cut in one side, and nearer the end is a bridge-piece, c, to form a whistle, such as is ordinarily used as a dog-call. A pea, d, may be placed in the cavity ofthe breech.

whistle, if desired. AThe whistle end of the tool forms a socket for a gun-nipple, and is transversely slotted, as at e, Fig. 1, to embrace the shank of the nipple to unscrew a broken one and screwl a fresh one vinto the by a screw-cap,fB, having a ring, f, sprung into sockets in itssides Therouter end 1s formed into a screw-driver, g, while the inner end has a needle, h, inserted in it, which can be used to prick out a stopped nipple.. The

ALBERT E. BARTHEL. Witnesses:

H. F. EBERTS, H. S. SPRAGUE. y

The other end of the tool is closed 

